Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.
As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.
The Acceleration team will develop new features and expand the self-serving capabilities of existing systems to handle partner accounts at scale, with initial focus on automating backend operational tasks and improving onboarding and partner setup.
This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties
Building Software Applications: Strong proficiency in front-end programming languages like JavaScript / Typescript and frameworks like React
Writing Quality Code: Ability to write scalable, readable, and reusable code adhering to coding standards, with a focus on refactoring and design patterns to ensure maintainability.
End-to-End Ownership: Independently manage services from development to production, including monitoring application performance and implementing relevant SLIs, SLOs, and KPIs.
Software System Design: Experience in evaluating and selecting architecture solutions that align with business and technology requirements, ensuring adaptability for future enhancements.
Technical Incident Management: Ability to diagnose and resolve live production issues, contributing to reliability through root cause analysis and postmortem documentation.
Continuous Quality Improvement: Identify areas for process optimization, designing and implementing improvements to enhance performance and efficiency.
Collaborative Communication: Effective in delivering information tailored to audience needs, fostering team collaboration, and actively engaging in discussions to achieve shared goals.
Recruiting: Contributing to the growth of Booking.com through interviewing, on-boarding, or other recruitment efforts
Role Qualifications and Requirements
+5 years of experience in software development.
More than 3 years of front-end development experience with React using TypeScript or JavaScript.
Minimum of 2 years experience with 2 or more server-side programming languages, preferably Java and/or TypeScript.
Extensive experience in building and maintaining scalable, responsive user interfaces using modern languages and frameworks.
Proficient in using and consuming GraphQL and REST APIs.
Continuous Quality and Process Improvement.
Advocate of modern engineering best practices, including TDD, cloud computing, DDD, and observability.
Experienced with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Experience in developing products impacting a large customer base is advantageous.
Preferably holds a university degree in Mathematics or Software Engineering.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits & Perks
Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users
Pre-Employment Screening
If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.
